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Ameel, Eef; Malt, Barbara; Storms, Gert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Despite arguments for the relative ease of learning common noun meanings, semantic development continues well past the early years of language acquisition even for names of concrete objects. We studied evolution of the use of common nouns during later lexical development. Children aged 5-14 years and adults named common household objects and their…
Descriptors: University Presses, Semantics, Nouns, Language Acquisition